Pope Francis condemned the suspected chemical weapons attack that killed over 100 people in Syria and renewed his call for an urgent political solution to end the war.......

In 2016 the Catholic Church contributed $200 million in humanitarian aid to 4.6 million people in Syria and the surrounding region, Gallagher said.

AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN know that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in the power of Christian love to redeem a world filled with hatred. But far fewer know his radical critique of American capitalism and war..

Martin Luther King's speech at Riverside Church in Harlem on April 4, 1967, explodes these myths and forces us to accept the fact that the most prominent and celebrated Black person in U.S. history is someone who challenged capitalism, nationalism, militarism and America's arrogant belief in its inherent righteousness.
The Riverside address, which has come to be known as the "Beyond Vietnam" speech, was also a challenge to the prevailing liberal consensus that civil rights activists had to, at all costs, preserve a "coalition" with the Democratic Party and President Lyndon Johnson...........

King described his ministry as a calling that stretches beyond national allegiances. About the Christians who counseled silence, he replied: "Could it be that they do not know that the Good News was meant for all men--for communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for Black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative?"
Jesus, he reminded his listeners, was the one who loved his enemies "so fully that he died for them. What then can I say to the Vietcong or to Castro or to Mao as a faithful minister of this one? Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life?"

The Mission of Secular Pro-Life is to end elective abortion.* We work toward this goal through:
 
Secularism. SPL seeks to increase the inclusiveness of the overall pro-life movement by creating space for pro-life atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other secularists. We also seek to provide pro-lifers of any religious or spiritual beliefs--or none at all--with the secular, pro-life perspective. We encourage all pro-lifers to understand the secular pro-life perspective so our movement can engage people using shared bases of understanding.

The opening week of 2017 saw the publication of a remarkable book, Letters to a Young Muslim, written by Omar Saif Ghobash, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to Russia. Letters is a series of reflections about Islam explicitly addressed to the author’s teenage son but also, implicitly, to the entire Muslim Ummah, or worldwide community.
The book doubtlessly will stick in the craws of Americans who persist in believing, contrary to both evidence and common sense, that Islam is a monolithic cult of hatred and violence. It will also infuriate ISIS thugs besotted by their violence-soaked vision of a resurrected caliphate.

There’s no finesse, no gradation of virtues or vices, no gray moral zone, no room for compassion or letting-live, in either the Islamist or Christian zealot world.